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- English Word Tillage Definition A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
- English Word Tillandsia Definition A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.
- English Word Tilled Definition of Till
- English Word Tiller Definition One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
- English Word Tiller Definition A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
- English Word Tiller Definition A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
- English Word Tiller Definition A young timber tree.
- English Word Tiller Definition To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
- English Word Tiller Definition A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
- English Word Tiller Definition The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
- English Word Tiller Definition The handle of anything.
- English Word Tiller Definition A small drawer; a till.
- English Word Tillered Definition of Tiller
- English Word Tillering Definition of Tiller
- English Word Tillet Definition A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.
- English Word Tilley Definition Alt. of Tilley seed
- English Word Tilley seed Definition The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton Tiglium.
- English Word Tilling Definition of Till
- English Word Tillman Definition A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
- English Word Tillmen Definition of Tillman
- English Word Tillodont Definition One of the Tillodontia.
- English Word Tillodontia Definition An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eocene formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.
- English Word Tillow Definition See 3d Tiller.
- English Word Tilly-vally Definition A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent.
- English Word Tilmus Definition Floccillation.
- English Word Tilt Definition A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- English Word Tilt Definition The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
- English Word Tilt Definition A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
- English Word Tilt Definition To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- English Word Tilt Definition To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.